Murray Rothbard : (5) " Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. " - Murray Rothbard " If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place. " - Murray Rothbard " Keynes eliminated economic theory’s ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and to political pelf and privilege. " - Murray Rothbard " Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle – for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory. " - Murray Rothbard " Praxeology – economics – provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments. " - Murray Rothbard